THE INVENTIVE AMERICAN
"INTERVIEW" WITH LADY WARD
[Pes United Press Association.]
WELLINGTON, October 12. A New York paper published what purports to be an interview with-Lady Ward while in. America, in which she is attributed as saying that women are powerful factors in New Zealand affairs, and that they can make or mar candidates, that they been factors in many great victories for righteousness, that they had practically stamped out liquor and vice, and she hoped to see tho day when there would not be a saloon in the land. Questioned on the subject to-day, Lady Ward said she was asked by representatives of many papers for interviews when abroad, but she declined in every instance. She expressed surprise at the report of the alleged interview. Sho had stated privately that the women of New Zealand took full advantage of the right to vote and that the conferring of votes had, generally speaking, had a good effect. She was not asked by anyone for an opinion on the liquor question, and had expressed no opinion on it. The remarks in the alleged interview were not correct..
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Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 4
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186THE INVENTIVE AMERICAN Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 4
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